I believe it made a lot of difference after cleaned. Now I pull apart every 3-4 months and clean fans, heat sinks and glass.
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I believe it made a lot of difference after cleaned. Now I pull apart every 3-4 months and clean fans, heat sinks and glass.
You would be shocked how much dust collects on the fans, they probably don't cool the heat sinks like should when dust builds up on fans.
Stoney Roads
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Awesome thanks. Looks like I have a project in about 2 maybe 3 weeks. Thanks for answering my questions appreciate it
Dave Groomer
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Stoney Roads
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It's not dust it's kief!!!
That don't really make sense for it to be kief
It's not dust it's kief!!!
Hey Super, next time I clean my lights, I will save the kief dust for you.
noobiegrow
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Alright, looking to buy more lights to fill a 15x20 room. I'm debating on getting (10) of the 600w old style lights vs (5) 192 reflector series. Well I was running numbers and this is what I came with, these are based flowering coverage numbers off the ebay site.
600w old style
2*1.5 flowering coverage
9122 lumens
so with 10 of these, they would technically cover 30sqft of space and put out 91,200 lumens
192 reflectors
3.5*3.5 flowering coverage
10820 lumens
5 units will cover 61.25sqft with lumen output of 54,100 lumens
These two packages will run me about the same amount of money, so I came here to ask what do you guys think is the better buy? Do I go for coverage or do I go for lumens? As you can see, the reflectors will cover a little more than double than what the 600w would but the 600w would put out about 45% more lumens than the reflectors.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
600w old style
2*1.5 flowering coverage
9122 lumens
so with 10 of these, they would technically cover 30sqft of space and put out 91,200 lumens
192 reflectors
3.5*3.5 flowering coverage
10820 lumens
5 units will cover 61.25sqft with lumen output of 54,100 lumens
These two packages will run me about the same amount of money, so I came here to ask what do you guys think is the better buy? Do I go for coverage or do I go for lumens? As you can see, the reflectors will cover a little more than double than what the 600w would but the 600w would put out about 45% more lumens than the reflectors.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
noobiegrow
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Once I harvest my current grow, I will be removing the glass in my old style 600W, it is very cloudy. I'm sure it will run cooler than what it is now but not sure by how much but getting all my light is more important.
Glitch911
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It's thier new year holiday. Bad timing they are closed
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Glitch911
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Drop those lights down a bit to reduce the big stretch next time you get a more even canopyI have been lurking for awhile, heres what I have going on.
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Dave Groomer
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Stoney Roads
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noobiegrow
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I have been lurking for awhile, heres what I have going on.
What lights do you have exactly and what's your grow space? Looks like you have some of the old style and one of the Mars ii?
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As I recall awhile back someone ran their lights without the glass and it didn't go well and voids the warranty
noobiegrow
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Wonder why it wouldn't work as well? Seeing as how the glass or what have you gets cloudy so it's obviously not shining through with full potential. Now I can see it may void warranty but then again when something breaks you have to work on it yourself anyways from what other members have experienced here.
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ganjazz
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Ladies under reflector 300w ,8 weeks 
(next grow journal up soon)
(next grow journal up soon)
thebluntman
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Got a mars 2 with about 60 hours on it one of the fans has already went out. Fan was making alot of noise when i started useing it now its out.
No, I am not saying it is a "lie" per se, but I am saying you will have a VERY hard time to find actual "5W" Epistar/Epiled chips which are technically different from 3W chips. If you find them, let us know - but you won't find them!
What I am saying is (and here I am also referring to what Sara once mentioned although it was not too clear what she said) that how the chips are labelled, "3W" or "5W" depends how they're binned and driven. It is my guess that the better bins can be driven higher w/ higher output, then making companies to label those chips "5W" chips. OF COURSE it can also be that the entire "5W" chips is a sham, or at least it's confusing since it implies there are two different types of chips, 3W Epistar/Epiled and 5W Epistar/Epiled, which AS TO MY KNOWLEDGE isn't the case.
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